Etymologies

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Variant of further. (Wiktionary)

Examples

The geographer Guyot, himself a European, goes farther, farther than I am ready to follow him; yet not when he says, As the plant is made for the animal, as the vegetable world is made for the animal world, America is made for the man of the Old World.

English, _Why you no come farther, Mr. Bear_ said he, _pray, Mr. Bear come farther_; and then indeed we all burst into a laughter; especially when we perceived Friday drop like a squirrel upon the ground, leaving the beast to make the best of his way down the tree.

Those _Bishops and Martyrs_ It was the advice of Sir that assisted in this Reformation, Henry Wotton, "Take heed did not (as Sir _Henry Wotton_ of thinking the farther you go said wisely) think _the farther_ from the Church of Rome, they went from the Church of Rome, the nearer you are to God." the nearer they got to heaven.

We also found a trail that we believe is where it was the drag of its tail behind it, we found very shallow prints along the side of the drag but not to distinct because this was farther from the shore and drier, the prints and slides were near the shore and almost an inch deep because the ground was moist.

That pressure came from high-end investors, who wanted more profitable (and more risky) loans, and the banks passed the pressure along to legislators – but it was for the purpose of making greater profits for their high-end investors, and they used the excuse of subprime borrowers to convince congress to act, as if they were simply acting out of humanitarian urges, when nothing was farther from the truth.

Species that migrate with the sea ice edge or make forays to the ice edge from coastal areas may have to travel farther and expend more energy as the summer sea ice edge retreats farther from the coast and from the location of the winter ice edge, the agency said.